10G-class fiber access technologies have begun to ship in volume and in the long term growth will be driven by demand for higher-capacity access networks to serve enterprises and residential customers. We expect the ramp up to materialize from 2019 onward, as telcos will need to compete with each other and cable MSOs offering gigabit services as well as position themselves to support mobile transport.

US telecommunications equipment maker CommScope will acquire Arris, in a $7.4B deal valued at $5.69 billion, with the difference comprised of CommScope’s assumption of Arris’s debt. As part of the deal, the Carlyle Group will make a $1M equity investment in CommScope for an approximate 16% stake in the new company.
CommScope’s CEO Eddie Edwards has claimed the two companies’ product lines are complementary, and that the combined company will “enable end-to-end wired and wireless communications infrastructure solutions that neither company could otherwise achieve on its own.”
The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2019.

Broadband World Forum has finally come of age, celebrating its 18th edition this year in what continues to be the annual meeting point for the broadband industry. Messe Berlin opened its doors to more than 4100 attendees from more than 1500 organisations that gathered to share, learn and promote anything broadband. Historically, Broadband World Forum has been a telco-centric show and that was particularly evident this year. For a market that is purportedly converging, the cable side of the industry was absent as it was busy attending Cable-Tec Expo on the other side of the Atlantic.

This database is an evolution of the popular lighting report. Now in its fifth edition this database, which is updated throughout the year, provides detailed revenue and unit shipment analyses of six lamp and eight luminaire technologies, with forecasts through 2023.

At Light+Building 2018 the leading lighting companies, Philips Lighting and Osram, both announced their own BMS platforms, Interact and Lightelligence, respectively. These BMS platforms allow data to be collected and analyzed via building-wide sensors, via either third-party applications or proprietary applications.

IKEA has added a color-changing bulb to its smart lighting line, Trådfri. This addition is currently being sold as part of a dimming kit, which contains a bulb, a dimmer and a battery for the dimmer. It is not yet known whether these color-changing bulbs will be sold separately, like the current Trådfri white color bulbs, or whether the motion sensor and gateway kit will be made available with the color-changing Trådfri bulb.

Light+Building, the world’s largest trade fair for lighting and building service technology, welcomed more than 2,700 exhibitors from 55 countries, across more than 260,000 square meters spread ove 25 halls.